On a walk last week I could not resist making a slow exposure of the leaves of a Cottonwood being blown in the wind. Like Aspen leaves, these flutter in a way that is difficult for me to describe in words. Video would do it but I wanted to see the movement in a still photograph. This one, made at 1/20th of a second, begins to captures the feel of what I was seeing.

And then yesterday Writer’s Almanac published a fabulous poem by Robert Hass that speaks so clearly to these fluttering leaves I have to share it here:

 

 

10 Sep This entry was published on September 10, 2014 at 10:55 pm. It’s filed under John Snell, Leaves, Photograph, Trees, Vermont and tagged Aspen, Cottonwood, John Snell, leaves, Photography, poet, Robert Hass, summer, Vermont. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.